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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Mouse and Keyboard issue on Macintosh SE | Posted by: mg.man on 2023-02-07 11:15:17
That's also why there used to be "head parking" utilities back in those pioneer days. 🙂 | Posted by: tony359 on 2023-02-07 13:05:09
hello friend!
Then I misunderstood you, I thought you said something had to spread on the platters. Anyways, I'll give it another go at some point. | Posted by: mg.man on 2023-02-07 13:47:57
No worries, read through that post I linked - pretty much what I remember from back in my Big Blue days. There was also a theory that the lubricant would "pile up" in the less frequently used areas of the disk, so when you shut down (without forcing the head to "park") and the head happened to be over one of those areas, then your chances of stiction were much greater. To reduce this, there were also drive "exerciser" utilities that allowed to to force the head to seek in various ways - random, butterfly, etc... those were the days.... 😀 | | < 2 |
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